5:32pm UK, Friday January 07, 2011 Kat Higgins, Sky News Online South Korea has been heavily criticised for burying up to one million pigs alive as it grapples with a foot and mouth disease outbreak.

The government has so far refused to vaccinate pigs against the diseaseSince the first case of the disease was confirmed in November the country has embarked on a mass cull.Foot and mouth disease affects all cloven hoofed animals such as pigs, cattle and goats, and any country that has cases of it is unable to export the animals' meat.The South Korean government has so far refused to vaccinate pigs against the disease and is now slaughtering them in record numbers despite appeals to stop.On January 4 in one area of Gangwon-Do, 33,900 pigs alone were destroyed, according to the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE).Compassion in World Farming (CIWF) told Sky News Online that South Korea's actions contravene international guidelines.Michele Danan from the organisation said: "Live vaccinations are the best route but if they do have to kill them we would prefer that they were at least slaughtered humanely."

As you can see, there is a new war, a new battle against humans. No more doubt, they want to destroy all the chain food and humans all around the world and you will see very soon, they will use this same reason to impose vaccinate to all the populations

by Staff WritersSeoul (AFP) Jan 9, 2011

South Korea confirmed three new cases of bird flu on Sunday as the outbreak that began last month further hits farmers who are also battling the nation's worst-ever outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease.

The agriculture ministry confirmed three new cases of the highly contagious virus at duck farms in the southwestern county of Yeongam, bringing the total number of cases to seven since December 31.

At least 396,000 chickens, ducks and other birds have been or will be culled, the agriculture ministry said on its website, as the fresh cases were reported after a week-long pause.

Health authorities have placed quarantine zones around nearby areas to carry out emergency disinfection on people and vehicles, especially those transporting animal feed.

South Korea has been hit by avian influenza three times, with the last outbreak in April 2008.

The renewed bird flu scare came as farmers and health authorities struggle to curtail the country's worst-ever outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease, which shows few signs of abating.

Seoul on Sunday confirmed two new cases of the disease at a pig farm in the southeastern county of Bongwha and a cattle farm at the midwestern county of Cheongwon.

A total of 108 cases have been confirmed since the first outbreak on November 29, leading to the record slaughter of at least 948,000 cattle and pigs in 40 cities and counties.

Since November, South Korea has lost about seven percent of its cattle and pigs, with related losses estimated at more than one trillion won ($890 million).

More than 68,000 troops have been deployed to help culling efforts, with President Lee Myung-Bak on Thursday calling for "fundamental measures" to contain the disease, such as securing more vaccine.

In a desperate attempt to contain the spread of foot-and-mouth, the government has vaccinated 1.5 million cattle and pigs -- risking a longer export ban by overseas buyers.

It takes longer for a country that uses vaccinations to regain disease-free status from the World Organisation for Animal Health than when the disease is curbed solely by culling.

The agriculture ministry said Saturday that an additional 1.2 million pigs and cattle across the country will be vaccinated in the coming weeks, while it tries to secure vaccines for 6.5 million animals by the end of this month.

It's not bird flu, it's look like electromagnetic technology, may be HAARP or QUANTIUM tech and poisons by chemtrails or dioxine. Remember BP oil, it was the beginning I think to this massive destruction. See this videos. It's coming from your government again... and after they will go after humans.

Sylvain Turmel is wondering why he’s been picking up dead pigeons for more than two weeks on his farm in Saint-Augustine-de-Desmaures. (DANIEL MALLARD/QMI Agency) MONTREAL — More than 80 pigeons have keeled over and died at a farm near Quebec City for unknown reasons, the latest in a string of mysterious animal deaths around the world.

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The first dead bird was found on Dec. 18. He’s since found more bodies on his roof and inside the barn.

Jefferson County (KSDK) -- A NewsChannel 5 viewer called in late Saturday afternoon about more than a dozen dead birds, scattered on an overpass in Jefferson County, along Old Highway 21 and just south of Rock Creek Road.

In Turkey mass killing birds [google translated from Russian]"In Turkey, there was a case of an unexplained mass deaths of birds. Dead starlings found residents of the county Karacabey in Bursa province. Promptly reported the incident to local authorities launched an investigation of the incident. Experts are currently conducting the necessary tests. However, while they failed to establish the cause of death of starlings."

PORT-AU-PRINCE — Haitian authorities were planning Sunday to ban consumption of fish from a lake on the border with the Dominican Republic where scores of dead fish have been found dead in recent days.

"Abnormal numbers of dead fish have been found in the waters and on the shores of Lake Azuei," Michel Chancy, a government state secretary, told reporters.

"It could be due to water poisoning, but there are also other hypotheses."

A major die-off of what appears to be the 2010 class is happening in Chicago harbors. Thousands, perhaps far more than that, of dead gizzard shad in the 3- to 5-inch range are frozen in the ice of Chicago harbors or floating around in open patches of water.

GEYSERVILLE, Calif. -- A report that about 100 birds were found dead in unincorporated Sonoma County near Geyserville this weekend has a simple explanation: they flew into a big-rig, a state Department of Fish and Game spokesman said today.

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MAJOR DIE-OFF OF FISH ALONG LAKEFRONT

BY DALE BOWMAN Jan 11, 2011 10:10AM | Dale Bowman ~For the Sun-Times

View Gallery A bizarre scene is evolving on the Chicago lakefront, with Canada geese and mallard ducks gulping down dead or dying gizzard shad.

A major die-off of what appears to be the 2010 class is happening in Chicago harbors. Thousands, perhaps far more than that, of dead gizzard shad in the 3- to 5-inch range are frozen in the ice of Chicago harbors or floating around in open patches of water.

Germany has banned a family of pesticides that are blamed for the deaths of millions of honeybees. The German Federal Office of Consumer Protection and Food Safety (BVL) has suspended the registration for eight pesticide seed treatment products used in rapeseed oil and sweetcorn.

A bizarre scene is evolving on the Chicago lakefront, with Canada geese and mallard ducks gulping down dead or dying gizzard shad.

A major die-off of what appears to be the 2010 class is happening in Chicago harbors. Thousands, perhaps far more than that, of dead gizzard shad in the 3- to 5-inch range are frozen in the ice of Chicago harbors or floating around in open patches of water.

Translated page:A survey conducted by the Federation of Fishermen's Colony of Paraná, Paranaguá on the coast of the state, indicates that at least 100 tons of fish (sardine, croaker and catfish) have turned up dead since last Thursday off the coast of Parana.

South Korea's ongoing epidemics of foot-and-mouth disease and avian flu have led the country's government to call for the culling of animals -- pigs and cows because of foot-and-mouth, chickens and ducks because of avian flu, as well as smaller numbers of other animals like goats -- on an enormous scale.

Reports list the number of slaughtered pigs at well over a million; the total number of all animals killed seems to be several million and growing. Worse still, a large percentage of those -- representing virtually all the culled pigs, according to the group Korea Animal Rights Advocates (KARA) -- were buried alive, in part because the country doesn't have enough euthanasia drugs to go around and a large dose is required to kill a pig.

SEBASTIAN — State testing didn’t confirm that marine algae contributed to a large fish die-off on the west side of the Sebastian Inlet on Friday, according to Carli Segelson, a spokeswoman for the state’s Fish and Wildlife Research Institute in St. Petersburg.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Jan. 18 (UPI) -- Florida wildlife officials say hundreds of Eastern brown pelicans have been injured or killed on the St. Johns River east of Jacksonville in the past two weeks.

Local animal rescue workers say cold weather could have caused hypothermia as the birds land in the water, and say the pelicans have been losing a protective coating that shields their feathers from becoming saturated by water, the (Jacksonville) Florida Times-Union reported.

ST.-AUGUSTIN-DE-DESMAURES, Quebec, Jan. 9 (UPI) -- Another mass bird death has been discovered, this time on a Quebec farm.

Farmer Sylvain Turmel told the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. he found about 80 dead pigeons Dec. 18 on his land in St.-Augustin-de-Desmaures, west of Quebec City.

"I found two dead birds in the morning, which is normal; birds sometimes die," he said. "But when I came back one hour later, another 25 had fallen. In the time it took me to pick them up, five more fell to the ground."

Dozens of dead fish have been found floating in the Railway Lakes, behind the Lincolnshire Co-operative home store.THE cause of mysterious deaths of dozens of fish spotted floating on a Lincolnshire lake is being investigated.

Officials with the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries identified the fish as Shad, which are known to travel in huge schools and are more common in creeks.

Biologists collected samples of the fish to send off for testing. Though no official results are back, biologists said the fish kill was most likely caused by low oxygen levels. Low oxygen levels are usually caused by low tides and high temperatures and usually affect one species.

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An alarming number of sick, dying and dead leopard sharks have been turning up on the shores of Richardson Bay over the past two weeks, but researchers are baffled as to what is causing the problem, observed elsewhere in the Bay Area as well.

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DOZENS OF SHARKS WASHING UP DEAD IN CALIFORNIA

Wednesday, May 18, 2011 by: Ethan A. Huff, staff writer

(NaturalNews) An otherwise highly-resilient species of shark, the leopard shark, is turning up dead all over the northern California coast, particularly in the San Francisco Bay Area. According to reports, dozens of leopard sharks have either washed ashore dead since April, or have been found so badly injured and in pain that the creatures were literally pounding their heads into the sand in what some locals said appeared to be suicide attempts.

More than 30 dolphins mysteriously washed up dead in the Lowcountry this spring. The big spike in strandings alarms federal researchers enough that they are conducting extensive tests on the remains.

From late February through early May, 32 bottlenose dolphins stranded, mostly in Charleston and Beaufort counties. That's three times what would be expected during those months.

"Right now we don't know why they died," said Wayne McFee, National Ocean Service marine mammal stranding program scientist. "Most of the animals we've had have been really decomposed." The testing will take months, he said.

Read more :http://www.postandcourier.com/news/2011/jun/28/dead-dolphins-alarm-researchers/

THOUSANDS OF DEAD FISH FOUND FLOATING IN HANOI'S FAMOUS LAKE, VIETNAM - 6th JULY 2011

For the past week, thousands of fish died and floated on Hanoi’s Truc Bach Lake, causing serious pollution.

Those who pass Hanoi’s most romantic road – Thanh Nien (Youth) road – these days have to hold their noses or their breath because of the bad smell from the lake.

Newly dead fish float to the lake’s shore every morning, disintegrated and give out smell.

Some fished out dead fish to make fertilize or to feed their pigs. A local man said he could collect up to 500kg of dead fish in the morning.

Read more :http://thecomingcrisis.blogspot.com/2011/07/thousands-of-dead-fish-found-floating.html

September 17, 2011 – CALIFORNIA – Are the killer bees meaner than ever in 2011? The Killer Bee Guy thinks so. They’re much more ornery this year, according to Reed Booth, also known as The Killer Bee Guy. “This is the worst I’ve seen in 10 years,” Booth told CNN affiliate KOLD-TV in Tucson this week. Booth spoke after taking out a 200-pound hive of a quarter-million killer bees on a Bisbee farm earlier this week. The bees had swarmed after their hive in an outbuilding on the farm was disturbed. They killed a 1,000-pound hog and and sent a pregnant 800-pound sow into a coma. The piglets were lost, KOLD reported. “A thousand-pound pig is a huge thing,” Booth said. “I’m kinda surprised that they did kill it.” Farmer Jane Hewitt said the attack was frightening. “I jumped into a car but the passenger side window was down, and they came in a black cloud towards me. I tried to swat at them and get them out the driver’s side window,” she told KOLD. The Bisbee hive was one of two massive hives Booth has tackled within a week. On Tuesday, Booth removed a hive of 200,000 bees from an abandoned home in Palominas, according to a report on willcoxrangenews.com. That hive contained some of the most aggressive bees he’s ever seen, according to the report. “This was, on a scale of 1 to 10, with 10 being the worst, this was definitely a nine,” Booth said. “You could smell the venom. There were so many bees around our masks, we could barely see.” CNN affiliate KNXV-TV in Phoenix reported that a man in Wilhoit, Arizona, died after a bee attack last week. Two other men were injured. Hives of 100 pounds or more have been removed from residences in the Phoenix area, too, CNN affiliate KPHO-TV reports. “This year we’ve had more large hives than we’ve ever had,” said Kevin Hodgson, of The Beekeeper, an extermination service in the Phoenix area. “Consistently these hives are bigger than they’ve been in recent years,” Hodgson told KPHO. Booth won’t dispute that. “It’s been a record year for big, mean hives,” willcoxrangenews.com quotes Booth as saying. Meanwhile in California, bees attacked four people Thursday in Santa Ana junk yard, sending all four to the hospital, according to a report from CNN affiliate KCBS-TV. One of the men, who was in a wheelchair when the hive was disturbed, was stung 64 times. Three other men were stung as they pulled him away from the swarm, according to the report. -CNN

27 October 2011 – Four United Nations agencies have prepared a plan to limit the degradation of oceans and address issues such as overfishing, pollution and declining biodiversity to encourage countries to renew their commitment to improve oceans’ governance, the UN announced today.

The plan, Blueprint for Ocean and Coastal Sustainability, seeks to highlight the opportunity that countries have to set up more effective institutional mechanisms to protect both the ocean and coastal areas ahead of the UN Conference on Sustainable Development, Rio+20 in June next year, where world leaders will meet to asses their progress on SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT and address new challenges.

According to a news release issued by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), the plan will be presented by its Director-General Irina Bokova at the headquarters of the agency in Paris on Tuesday. The event will be one of the highlights of the 36th session of UNESCO’s general conference.

The plan was produced jointly by UNESCO, UN Development Programme (UNDP), Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the International Maritime Organization (IMO), who will present the ten recommendations featured in the plan at the event.

According to UNESCO, oceans account for 70 per cent of the Earth’s surface, but only one per cent of their area is protected. In addition, 60 per cent of major marine ecosystems are damaged or over-exploited, having negative effects on mangroves and coral reefs.

The ocean also absorbs close to 26 per cent of carbon dioxide emission in the atmosphere, increasing acidification, which affects plankton, and these in turn affect the entire food chain, significantly increasing the impact oceans have on all ecosystems.

ABANDONED AND STARVING TO DEATH: HUNDREDS OF SKELETAL HORSES LEFT TO DIE AFTER WORST EVER DROUGHT RAVAGES CROPS IN TEXAS

Horses being sold for as little as $50 at auction

By Louise BoyleLast updated at 8:20 PM on 5th December 2011

These are the distressing images of horses left by the side of the road after a year-long drought meant their owners could no longer afford to feed them.

After a year without rain in Texas, coupled with rocketing temperatures, crops have been sparse and the price of a bale of hay has doubled.

The effect on the horse population has been devastating. The number of animals being abandoned is ten times greater than in previous years, according to Richard Fincher of Safe Haven Equine Rescue in Gilmer, in east Texas.

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Agonising: A malnourished horse barely has the energy to trot at the Safe Equine Rescue in Gilmer, Texas after being abandoned by an owner who can no longer afford to feed itMr Fincher said: 'We get 20 to 40 calls a week that horses are alongside the road and left; nobody's claimed them. Sheriffs are calling us all the time.'

The problem, according to Dennis Sigler, a horse specialist at Texas A&M University in College Station, is that the drought has dried up the hay fields.

Mr Sigler told Reuters: 'The price of hay and feed today is at levels we have never experienced before because of the drought.'In addition to that, pastures are short, and folks who have horses on pasture have no grass for their horses. There is just no market for horses this year.'

He said there are around 1 million horses in Texas and valued the industry at $5.3 billion.

It costs between $150 to $200 a month in normal times to feed a horse. However with hay prices rocketing, many more people find horses are a luxury they cannot afford.

Starvation: Another horse foundation in Texas, the Bluebonnet Equine Humane Society has been rescuing animals since 2009

Arid landscape: Texas has been ravaged by drought which has been lakes dry up and crops turn to dust

[img]History revealed: The gravestone of baby Johnny Parks is part of a range of sites uncovered by falling lake levels in Texas. Parks and others were buried in a cemetery in the old town of Bluffton

At auctions, even horses in good condition are fetching as little as $50. In some cases, people have been giving their animals away.

The drought has also forced Texas ranchers to sell cattle, leaving them with horses that are no longer needed to round up herds.

It has been estimated that the drought has cost Texas $5.2 billion in agricultural losses.

Mr Sigler added: 'They're just hurting. The economy and the drought has got them in a crisis.'

Texas ranchers have been buying hay from as far away as Oregon and Idaho - but supplies in these states are also beginning to run low.

Suffering: The Californian charity Peaceful Valley Donkey Rescue said they see one case of abandonment every day in Texas

Beating sun: The soaring temperatures across the state of Texas has seen fewer hay bales available causing the prices to rocket

The deep cracks in the lake bed of the E.V. Spence Reservoir near Robert Lee, Texas, show the evidence of the wide-spread drought

The situation is even worse for donkeys as livestock sales typically will not accept the animal. Mark Meyers of the California-based Peaceful Valley Donkey Rescue said abandonment has reached epidemic proportions due to the drought. He said almost all of the group's efforts are now focused on Texas. Mr Meyers said: 'We get almost one new abandonment case in Texas every day. And that could be between one donkey and twenty donkeys abandoned at a time.'Horse abandonment is a crime, and state law requires abandoned horses to be held by the local sheriff's department for 18 days. After that, most are sold at a sale barn for whatever prices they can bring.

Exposed by dry weather: The drought affecting Texas has uncovered several historical sites, including this tanks that was once part of a Texaco gas station at Bluffton - usually under 30 feet of water